Tag: Nigeria

Nigeria. Nigeria’s Buhari Urges Unity After Massacres in Flashpoint City (The Defense Post)

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. Photo: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has called for communities to unite to ease tensions after violence in a flashpoint central city killed dozens of people. Jos, in Plateau State,...

Nigeria/Russia. Nigeria To Buy Military Hardware From Russia (Lisa Vives, IDN)

Fighter jets, ammunition and other military hardware are among the top featured items in a new “landmark development in bilateral relations” between Moscow and...

Nigeria – Nigeria’s Twitter ban is a misplaced priority (Brookings)

Source: Authors, using data from Twitter Mary Blankenship and Christina Golubski In early June 2021, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari announced the indefinite suspension of Twitter after the platform...

Nigeria – Education in emergency in Nigeria: Creating gender equitable policies so all girls have an uninterrupted right to learn (Brookings)

Edem Dorothy Ossai writes: Even under what some may describe as normal conditions, girls in Nigeria face a distinctive set of barriers to formal...

(Nigeria) 100 kidnapped villagers freed after 42-day captivity (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Police in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Zamfara have said they secured the release of 100 villagers kidnapped in early June following...

Nigeria – No End in Sight for Insecurity and Banditry in Northwestern Nigeria (Idris Mohammed, The Jamestown Foundation)

For half a decade, northwestern Nigeria has been facing serious insecurity, ranging from armed group violence to kidnappings and banditry, which has affected most...

Nigeria – Once Africa’s promise, Nigeria is heaving under crime, few jobs (Alonso Soto, Al Jazeera)

If there was ever a time Nigeria could have taken off, it was in 1999. Democracy had been restored, with its economy reopening after...

Nigeria – How Nigeria’s Twitter ban stands to impact people, businesses (Festus Iyorah, Al Jazeera)

The Twitter suspension came two days after the social media giant deleted a tweet from President Buhari’s account for violating its rules How Nigeria’s...

Nigeria – ISWAP Launches Hearts and Minds Strategy to Counter Nigerian Army Offensive (Jacob Zenn, The Jamestown Foundation)

Since Boko Haram’s launched its jihad in 2009, the group has undergone three major phases of territory-capturing military offensives. The Nigerian army turned the...

Nigeria – Dozens kidnapped from Islamic school in northern Nigeria (Al Jazeera)

Armed groups carrying out kidnapping for ransom have been blamed for a series of raids on schools and universities in northern Nigeria in recent...

Nigeria – Student kidnappings threaten collapse of Nigerian education system (Brookings)

Adedeji Adeniran and Marco Castradori The Nigerian education system is deep into crises on multiple fronts, including in areas of access and quality of education. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2021/04/19/student-kidnappings-threaten-collapse-of-nigerian-education-system/

Nigeria – COVID’s impacts on the Nigerian extractive sector (Brookings)

Tamara White Earlier this month, the World Bank launched its latest edition of Africa’s Pulse, which explores the trajectories and trends in economic growth (or losses)...

(Nigeria) Collective Action on Corruption in Nigeria. The role of religion (Chatham House)

Leena Koni Hoffmann, Raj Navanit Patel This paper analyses the results of a survey carried out as part of the ongoing Chatham House Africa Programme’s Social Norms...

(Nigeria) Nigeria’s crackdown on Bitcoin echoes global crypto conundrum (Al Jazeera)

Torinmo Salau The backlash against a Nigerian central bank directive on cryptocurrencies echoes a dilemma facing governments around the world: how to regulate Bitcoin and...

(Nigeria) An Exit from Boko Haram? Assessing Nigeria’s Operation Safe Corridor (Crisis Group)

In 2016, Nigeria launched a program to help Boko Haram defectors reintegrate into civilian life. Rare interviews with the “deradicalisation” facility’s graduates reveal some...

(Nigeria) Nigeria university strike caused ‘crisis’ for small businesses (Al Jazeera)

Pelumi Salako One year after a 10-month strike shut universities across Nigeria, small businesses that depend on students for patronage are reeling from the effects...